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  2. Chinese character sounds - Wikipedia

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    Chinese character sounds (simplified Chinese: 汉字字音; traditional Chinese: 漢字字音; pinyin: hànzì zìyīn) are the pronunciations of Chinese characters. The standard sounds of Chinese characters are based on the phonetic system of the Beijing dialect. [1] Normally a Chinese character is read with one syllable.

  3. Tugou - Wikipedia

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    Tugou (Chinese: 土狗; pinyin: tǔ gǒu; lit. 'indigenous dog') is a diverse group of dogs native to China and still abundant across the country today. As the name suggests, it refers to any various breeds of primitive spitz-type dogs kept by other Non-Han ethnic groups of China.

  4. List of Chinese classifiers - Wikipedia

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    In the tables, the first two columns contain the Chinese characters representing the classifier, in traditional and simplified versions when they differ. The next four columns give pronunciations in Standard (Mandarin) Chinese, using pinyin; Cantonese, in Jyutping and Yale, respectively; and Minnan (Taiwan). The last column gives the classifier ...

  5. 12 Chinese Dog Breeds That Are Some of the Oldest and Rarest ...

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    According to the Chinese zodiac, people born in the Year of the Dog are loyal and energetic companions. This may come as no surprise to many Western cultures who have always seen dogs as lovable ...

  6. Standard Chinese phonology - Wikipedia

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    Chinese makes frequent use of particles to express certain meanings such as doubt, query, command, etc., reducing the need to use intonation. However, intonation is still present in Chinese (expressing meanings rather similarly as in standard English), although there are varying analyses of how it interacts with the lexical tones.

  7. Cross-linguistic onomatopoeias - Wikipedia

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    Language Biting Eating food Drinking Swallowing Brushing teeth Afrikaans: nom, gomf gloeg gloeg gloeg Albanian: ham, kërr, krrëk ham-ham, njam-njam

  8. Radical 94 - Wikipedia

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    Radical 94, meaning "dog" (犬部) is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes. In the Kangxi Dictionary , there are 444 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical .

  9. Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary (Vietnamese: từ Hán Việt, Chữ Hán: 詞漢越, literally 'Chinese-Vietnamese words') is a layer of about 3,000 monosyllabic morphemes of the Vietnamese language borrowed from Literary Chinese with consistent pronunciations based on Middle Chinese. Compounds using these morphemes are used extensively in cultural ...